[Forensics-changes] [SCM] debian-forensics/wipe branch, debian, updated. debian/0.21-9-17-g4cbbef1

Julien Valroff julien at kirya.net
Sat Sep 17 07:47:56 UTC 2011


The following commit has been merged in the debian branch:
commit 7f8178d6353558de12c7727ea5cb59a0737a1f5a
Author: Julien Valroff <julien at kirya.net>
Date:   Sat Sep 17 09:41:38 2011 +0200

    Fix some more nroff warnings

diff --git a/debian/patches/001_fix-manpages.diff b/debian/patches/001_fix-manpages.diff
index 3af7601..c12617c 100644
--- a/debian/patches/001_fix-manpages.diff
+++ b/debian/patches/001_fix-manpages.diff
@@ -4,7 +4,18 @@ Last-Update: 2011-09-17
 
 --- a/wipe.1
 +++ b/wipe.1
-@@ -172,10 +172,10 @@
+@@ -114,8 +114,8 @@
+ directly on the corresponding block device with the appropriate options. However
+ .I THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS THING TO DO.
+ Be sure to be sober. Give the right options. In particular : don't wipe a whole
+-harddisk (eg. wipe -kD /dev/hda is bad) since this will destroy your master boot
+-record. Bad idea. Prefer wiping partitions (eg. wipe -kD /dev/hda2) is good,
++harddisk (eg. wipe \-kD /dev/hda is bad) since this will destroy your master boot
++record. Bad idea. Prefer wiping partitions (eg. wipe \-kD /dev/hda2) is good,
+ provided, of course, that you have backed up all necessary data.
+ 
+ .PP
+@@ -172,14 +172,14 @@
  With this option which requires an argument you can specify an
  alternate /dev/random device, or a command who's standard output
  will be hashed using MD5-hashed. The distinction can be made using
@@ -17,6 +28,11 @@ Last-Update: 2011-09-17
  
  This option takes a single-character argument, which specifies
  how the random device/random seed argument is to be used. The default random device
+-is /dev/random. It can be set using the -R option.
++is /dev/random. It can be set using the \-R option.
+ .PP
+ .PD 0
+ The possible single-character arguments are:
 @@ -203,10 +203,9 @@
  time, its process id. etc. (the random device
  argument will not be used). This is of course

-- 
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